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Classic: My 2007 vstar..is slow to accelerate..60mph..idles fine…

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My 2007 VStar Classic is...

My 2007 VStar Classic is slow to accelerate and once it reaches about 50, it crawls up to 60mph where it doesn't go past that. It sounds almost like a standard car does when you downshift into too low of a gear, just deeper. It starts and idles fine. Its done it only twice before, both this year, but only lasted about a mile before breaking loose and running fine, now it doesn't seem to go away.

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Customer reply replied 8 years ago

I believe July last year. I had to take it in to get a repair on a cylinder. The bike has about another 1,000 miles since. Total miles is 6500. I'm not 100% sure is the carb was serviced, but I told him to do a 360 of the bike to make sure everything was good to go.

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